Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:50:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Terje Elde <delta@xti.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908121044550.13706-100000@kim.ispra.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <19990812102308.C27376@mordor.xti.org>
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On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Terje Elde wrote: > Anyone have anythign to recommend? > Also, sony vaio users on the list who can comment on their experiences? > I'm thinking about getting a 505 or something like that. I've been pleased as (a) pie with my 505; and it has survived a fairly harsh live for over 18 months now without so much as a scratch. Though the stickers at the back come peeling off. See http://www.webweaving.org/vaio/ for (outdated) some notes on porting. 3.2/PAO was actually trivial to install. Basically everything works; apm, sound, screen, mice, suspend, hibernate, whatever. Except one niggle; controlling the sound from your modem. There is none. But in windows you can control it. USB starts to work from 3.2/current onwards. The keyboard does not have that much depth; and I would have prefered one of those thinkpad style 'nob' mice. But they again, it is so thing and easy to carry. On other very important point; the VAIO's colour's coordinate very nicely with the small metal/glassy FreeBSD deamons you can get from walnut creek. They would not coordinate nearly as well with, say, compaq creamy or toshiba grey. Bear this in mind. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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